"Hey, I'm not psycho-analyzing you! I just know a thing or two about feeling worthless." His circumstances were a lot different from Devin's, but there wasn't a day that could go by where he wasn't reminded that the price of his cowardice has been these eyes. Even if Klaus had...that's right! What Klaus said to him!

Well, it probably wouldn't work on Devin being as stupid and stubborn as he was, but it was honestly what had made Leo stop and think, that maybe somehow there was a part of the world that could accept him and that he was useful. That they wanted him around.

"Mr. Klaus said something to me once when I first met him. Like....when I was sounding a lot like you. He told me as long as one faced towards the light and took even one step forward, that means the human spirit could never, truly die. You're not running away from where you're going and-" Leo took a breath before he got too emotional. "You may not be human, but you certainly act more like us than you do your vampires."